What is it about?
This policy brief describes the details of the data-informed decisions behind Washington state's community and technical college performance-based funding model. Those decisions were rooted in a set of guiding principles, which were then tested through the metrics to ensure the goal of the policy was being met.
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Why is it important?
This information is important for state policymakers who are just getting started with performance-based funding. There are critical considerations to take into account that are not always fully realized through standard literature review of the problem. This information is highly impactful because it comes directly from the work of Washington state, who has over a decade of experience with PBF and most specifically through the Great Recession.
Perspectives
I wrote this paper because I thought the implications of the work that we did as a system were so profound that they should be shared with a broader audience. The level of detailed analysis that we did to establish the model is not something I've seen in any of the existing literature and therefore is a significant contribution to the overall study of this concept.
Darby A Kaikkonen
WA State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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This page is a summary of: Shifting from Enrollment- to Performance-Based Funding in Higher Education: What Can We Learn from Washington's Experience?, Education Finance and Policy, October 2016, The MIT Press,
DOI: 10.1162/edfp_a_00190.
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